The Scotish musical museum : consisting of upwards of six hundred songs, with proper basses for the pianoforte

by: Johnson, James, approximately 1750-1811; Burns, Robert, 1759-1796; Clarke, Stephen, -1797; Stenhouse, William, 1773-1827; Laing, David, 1793-1878; Sharpe, Charles Kirkpatrick, 1781-1851

Publication date: 1839

Topics: Burns, Robert, 1759-1796, Songs, Scottish, Ballads, Scots, Folk songs, Scots, Folk songs, English, Songs with piano

Publisher: Edinburgh : William Blackwood and Sons

Collection: universitywesterno; ontario_council_university_libraries; toronto

Digitizing sponsor: University of Western Ontario - University of Toronto Libraries

Contributor: University of Western Ontario

Language: Scots; English

Volume: 1

Paged continuously

The facsimile is a letter from Burns to Johnson

Burns contributed 184 songs, wrote most of the prefaces to the different volumes, and may be said to have edited the 1st edition. The arrangements of the airs were prepared chiefly by Stephen Clarke. cf. Dict. nat. biog., v. 30, p. 16

Preface, v. 1, signed: David Laing. Notes added to Stenhouse's "Illustrations" by C.K. Sharpe

Contains, as added title-pages, the title-pages of 1st edition (2d issue): The Scots musical museum ... humbly dedicated to the Society of antiquaries of Scotland ..

Stenhouse's "Illustrations" published separately, 1853

Includes index

Dr. James and Dr. Margaret Whitby donation

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Addeddate: 2014-04-22 13:18:09.05485

Associated-names: Burns, Robert, 1759-1796; Clarke, Stephen, -1797; Stenhouse, William, 1773-1827; Laing, David, 1793-1878; Sharpe, Charles Kirkpatrick, 1781-1851